UNWRITTEN LITERATURE OF HAWAII1

1. The ‘Oral’ Nature of African Unwritten Literature

America’s Constitution, Written and Unwritten

Normalising Audio Transcriptions for Unwritten Languages

The task of documenting the world’s languages is a mainstream activity in linguistics which is yet to spill over into computational linguistics. We propose a new task of transcription normalisation as an algorithmic method for speeding up the process of transcribing audio sources, leading to text collections of usable quality. We report on the application of sentence and word alignment algorith...

Large-Scale Text Collection for Unwritten Languages

Existing methods for collecting texts from endangered languages are not creating the quantity of data that is needed for corpus studies and natural language processing tasks. This is because the process of transcribing and translating from audio recordings is too onerous. A more effective method, we argue, is to involve local speakers in the field location, using an audio-only translation inter...

Cancer Occurrence in Shipyard Workers Exposed to Asbestos in Hawaii1

Because large numbers of persons were employed in United States shipyards during World War II, the long-term risks for cancer associated with asbestos exposure in this setting are of great concern. We report here on the mortality findings after up to 29 years of follow-up on a retrospective cohort of 7971 male Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard workers, which included more than 3000 men whose employme...